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SINGAPORE: The US and Chinese defence chiefs were in Singapore on Friday for a major security forum where they are set to hold rare direct talks, with Taiwan and other flashpoint disputes expected to dominate the three-day event.

The meeting between the United States' Lloyd Austin and China's Dong Jun on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue will be the first substantive face-to-face talks between their countries' defence chiefs in 18 months.Defence chiefs and officials from around the world are attending the annual forum that has in recent years become a barometer of US-China relations.

A key focus has been the resumption of military-to-military dialogue.China scrapped military communications with the United States in 2022 in response to then-US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan.

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